The Council is responsible for the maintenance of approximately 1150Km of adopted highway within it's boundaries and the budget has to be spread around the whole area, however, as part of their election pledge, Sarah Moore and Tim Ball committed to get more of the damaged roads and footpaths in Twerton and Whiteway resurfaced.
Since the election in 2019, the following roads in Twerton and Whiteway have been repaired -North Way, West Close, St Michael's Road, East Close, East Way, Wedgwood Road, Landseer Road, Innox Road, North View Close, Springfield Close, Highfield Close, Long Hay Close, The Brow, Newton Road, How Hill, Shaw's Way, Watery Lane as well as parts of Redland Park, Shophouse Road and Poolemead Road together with several footpaths.
It is great to see the team out on Shaws Way this week to resurface the footpath at the rear of Twerton Infant School.
Last week, Sarah and Tim met with Highways officers to discuss the condition of more of the roads in our area and how they can be repaired. The roads discussed were Poolemead Road (remaining sections), Haycombe Drive, Windrush Close, Rosewarn Close, Woodhouse Road, Freeview Road, Dominion Road and Highland Road. Some of these roads will require more substantial and costly repairs due to the volume of traffic and their condition.
We are aware this is not all the remaining roads in Twerton and Whiteway that require repairs, but with such underinvestment in our roads over a long period of time the budget needs to be spread around the whole of BANES. We will provide more updates on these repairs as soon as we have them,
